Under the Shade
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We drank gin
& tonics at the bottom of the sea on Thursdays in between silence & conversations about human things like how to breathe underwater the blue glow of smartphones & half a country between us you taught me how the gills are both beautiful & dangerous & when the manta ray passed nearby docile & mis- understood we spoke low & our fingers touched its living shadow |
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David Hornibrook resides in Roseville, Michigan, with his wife and four children. His work has won multiple awards including a 2014 Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Thrush Poetry Journal, PANK, Rogue Agent, The Baltimore Review, Flyway, The Columbia Review, and many other places. He holds an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan.
S. Billie Mandle is a photographer whose work looks at subjectivity and the built environment. Some of her recent projects have explored church confessionals, Emily Dickinson’s bedroom, and convent walls. She received her B.A. in biology from Williams College and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She is the recipient of a Whiting Fellowship, an Individual Artist Grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council, and an Artist Fellowship in Photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her photographs have been featured in Aperture and Cabinet, among others, and her work was nominated for the Prix Pictet and the Paul Huf award. She is an assistant professor at Hampshire College and lives in Western Massachusetts.